From the article:
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By Joel Selbin
January 8, 2005
School boards around the country are considering whether to put
faith-based Intelligent Design alongside science-based evolution in
science classes.
In fact, in October, the Dover, Penn. school board, by a 6-3 vote,
ordered biology teachers at Dover Area High School to include in the
curriculum the "theory of intelligent design." This represents the
first such mandate in the United States. Similar proposals questioning
the teaching of evolution and proposing the teaching of ID are being
dealt with in about 40 states.
The recent re-election of an administration that advocates "creation
science" and often makes political decisions on faith-based
philosophies rather than on hard, cold reality, only reinvigorates the
nationwide efforts to inject religion into science classes. Religion
has a clear place in the home, in comparative religion courses and in
churches, synagogues, mosques, etc., but it has no place in science
courses.
After the Supreme Court in 1987 banned the teaching of creationism in
public schools on grounds of separation of church and state,
creationists have changed their call for teaching "creationism" to the
teaching of "intelligent design." Only the words are different. The
so-called "theory" is not.
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